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I'm Jesse Thorn.

Mike Lee, the movie director, has this story he likes to tell.

I'll set it up for you.

He's in his early 20s.

He's living in London where he'd moved from Manchester, where he grew up.

He's taking classes at the London Film School.

One night the school puts on a special screening of Rear Window.

And they're going to have a Q&A session with the director, Alfred Hitchcock.

I had already seen Rear Window several times and I was working in a cafe.

There's clear tables and things.

So I was always seen and I just arrived just at the end for the Q&A.

And it was in this basement preview theatre in Soho in London.

And I arrived at the lift and there was Hitchcock, the two of us standing.

We got to the lift.

I was completely overcome with it because it was Alfred Hitchcock and I was overwhelmed

and I won't deny it.

And for a kind of feeble joke, I said to Hitchcock, I hope we're not late.

Kind of meaning I hope we haven't missed it, which was fairly silly.

And Hitchcock snapped, I'm not late.

And that was it.

That was my, that was my Furbland to cause with Alfred Hitchcock.

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